The Betting Games Playbook

Every golf bet, explained.

119 games and formats in 79 pages — from the Nassau your father played to the ones nobody at your club has heard of. Plus the handicap tables, the settlement math, and printable cards for the cart.

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The Golf Dram

The Golf Betting
Games Playbook

Every game worth playing, and how to settle up
Est. 2026
What's Covered

Every game in one place

Not a list of the same twelve games every golf site has. A hundred and nineteen of them, sorted by how many of you there are.

NassauSkinsWolfVegasDaytona Bingo Bango BongoMatch PlayNinesSplit Sixes Acey DeuceyBankerDefenderWolfmanHammer Wolf HammerBridgeSixesSix-Point Scotch UmbriagoLow Ball–High BallBest BallScramble Texas ScrambleFlorida ScrambleShambleFoursomes GreensomesGruesomesChapmanYellow Ball StablefordModified StablefordQuotaChicago System 36PeoriaCallawayFlagsEclectic BowmakerBag RaidStringballGolf Poker Worst BallBisqueSunningdale RulesThe 59 Bogey TaxThe Animal GameSnakeDots & Junk Presses…and 66 more
What's Inside

Built for the first tee

The rules, in plain English

Every game written precisely enough to play from cold. Player count, how it works, how the money moves, and the house rules to settle before you start.

The settlement math

One formula that replaces the pairwise matrix on the back of a scorecard — and the reason you can beat your quota and still lose money.

Printable scorecards

Wolf, skins, Nines, points games, the dots tally, a Nassau press ledger and a settlement worksheet. Print them as often as you like.

The handicap tables

Every WHS allowance in one table, how strokes come off the low man, and the 2024 rounding change most clubs never made.

Sorted by your number

Chapters for two, three, four, and a full field — plus a pick-a-game table for when the group is mixed, slow, bored or broke.

Honest about the disputes

Half these games are played three ways in three states. Where the sources genuinely disagree, the book says so and gives you both versions instead of picking one quietly.

A Peek Inside

Here's a page

Wolf4 Players · Betting Game
The gistOne player is the Wolf each hole and picks a partner — or takes on all three alone for double.
Tee orderRotates every hole. The Wolf tees off first, then must take or pass on each drive as it happens — once the next man hits, the previous one is gone.
Lone WolfGo it alone for double points; declare a Blind Wolf before anyone hits for triple.
The 18 problemEighteen is not divisible by four. Three standard fixes, and the book tells you which one your group should use.
— One of 119. Wolf gets a page, a printable card, and four named variations —
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The Betting Games Playbook

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79 pages. 119 named games and formats. The handicap tables, the settlement math, seven printable scorecards and a house-rules sheet. Instant PDF download, yours to keep.

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